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They are studying data collected by the U.S. The researchers are tracking icebergs over time to test Greenland's response to climate change and the contribution to sea level rise from icebergs.
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The new results come from a broader examination of Greenland icebergs by Bigg and study co-author David Wilton, also from the University of Sheffield. The research was published today (April 10) in the journal Weather. "This really refutes the arguments that have been around about things like high tides or sunspots generating excessive numbers of icebergs in that year," Bigg told Live Science. Molony, who has also written a book called “ The Irish Aboard Titanic,” was also drawn to the social divisions reflected on the ship, where first-class cabins hosted millionaires while hundreds of working-class passengers, many of them Irish, stayed below.But the new findings contradict these earlier theories. Now the political editor at The Irish Daily Mail, Mr. He said he was so captivated that he finished the book in two hours and 40 minutes, the same time it took the Titanic to sink. Molony said his fascination took root when he was 12 and was gripped by “A Night to Remember,” Walter Lord’s 1955 book recounting the Titanic’s final night. Construction of a full-size replica recently began at a theme park in China. Popularized by Hollywood, the story of the Titanic continues to exert a hold on popular culture. The Titanic disaster has long fanned conspiracy theories, among them that it was not the Titanic that sank on April 15, 1912, but, rather the Olympic, its sister ship that the Titanic was torpedoed by a German U-boat or that the ship was brought down by a sarcophagus containing an Egyptian priestess’s mummy. At the time of departure, the ship was berthed so that the marks caused by the fire were facing the sea, away from the dock, and therefore concealed from passengers. Molony contends that the ship’s owners knew about the fire but chose to let it go, since delaying the ship’s journey would have been financially ruinous. “This discovery is a revelation and could change our knowledge of the history of what happened,” Mr. An official British inquiry, in 1912, mentioned the fire, but the judge who presided over it, whom critics saw as sympathetic to shipping interests, played it down. In an interview, Richard de Kerbrech, a marine engineer based on the Isle of Wight who has written two books on the Titanic disaster, said that the fire would have damaged the ship’s bulkhead, a wall of steel within the ship’s hull, and made it more vulnerable after it was pierced by an iceberg. Molony called the photographs “the Titanic equivalent of Tutankhamen’s tomb,” because of the richness of historical detail they conveyed, including the mark highlighting the extent of the damage. An analysis by engineers at Imperial College London subsequently revealed that the mark was most likely caused by a fire in a coal bunker of the ship. Molony said, they were shocked to discover a 30-foot-long diagonal black mark on the hull’s front starboard side, close to where the ship was pierced by the iceberg. When the two men looked closely at the images, Mr. Molony’s acquired the rare photographs of the ship, meticulously taken by Harland and Wolff’s engineering chief before it left a Belfast shipyard. About four years ago, a collaborator of Mr. The photographs were discovered by a descendant of a director of the Belfast-based company, Harland and Wolff, that built the Titanic. Molony’s potential breakthrough can be traced to an attic in Wiltshire, in southwest England, where a previously unpublished album of photographs chronicling the ship’s construction and the preparations for its maiden voyage had been gathering dust for more than a century.